In America at the time, stuffed full as it was with young men looking for a draft dodge and housewives listless for the next wave of feminism, people needed an escape route. There seemed nothing better than to join the flotilla of balloons, private planes and transcendental meditators who made the journey through the stratosphere...

If he follows Swedish custom, Orlo's son's name will be Yeahblipsen. Boy, will THAT be a funny name!

Still, he is forced to moonlight with the Drabblecast to put Swedish meatballs on his plate. Good thing his extensive market research correctly predicted that a story including male lactation was a surefire hook for one Norman Sherman, whalecheesemeister extraordinaire.

Watch out for the taxman, Orlo. Remember that 40.5 kr of your 45 kr earnings on this gig go to Uncle Sven.

Note to Tweedy: The hybrid Chinese take-out carton/nappy hamper is a stroke of genius. Use one, and an hour later you've got to poop again...Do DC licensing rules mean we can't bring that puppy to market?

Never judge anyone until you have biopsied their brain.

"Be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle."
Known Some Call Is Air Am

It was really weird, but made sense to me at least.
The detective is trying to figure out where/what happened to Edward Stone by interviewing people. Suddenly, the drunken ramblings of a guy passed out at the bar make perfect sense to him and he is able to put the pieces together (that's the joke, no way could a story this bizarre and detailed just "come to him", but that's also what happens in Law and Order CI every week.)
The story from there is just weird and hilarious. I especially loved the section describing the people trying to eat Chinese food in space.

I loved this for all its wierdness. The idea that the grown up baby had hired him to find out who he (the baby) was, was good in itself, then the splendidly bizarre circumstances of his birth and subsequent escape from captivity just added to it. A fantastic new twist on the traditional Private Eye story. Wonderful.

I really had a hard time following... did all the answers just "come" to the detective guy? Didnt he pass out in a phone booth, intoxicated by some sort of hallucigenic drug? That would explain this whole B Sides Episode...
So this whole "story" that he reported to the now-grown "baby"- was it just to feed his appetite for the answer about his past, or did the detective dude actually figure out that this shit all went down? Did I miss something? A few things? Everything?

I might be way off, but the way I understood it was that the detective knew most of that story, but just wanted to figure out who the dad was...It was super weird, but I just reconciled all of that with the good ol standby alternate universe theory...

I loved the part about "shipping the packages" to the astronauts, and the packages were Chinese food and not missiles.

This was the one Bsides episode so far that I just didn't get. I mean, I think I understood basically what was going on, in that I could sketch out an outline of events, but I didn't really "get" it beyond that. It seemed to be trying to be humorous but didn't really trigger my LOL reflex. Eh, humor's subjective, I guess this one just wasn't my style.

So last night, I was trying to explain to my husband how DC B-Sides is even weirder than the regular feed. I wasn't getting through to him, so I just played him this episode and watched him go from mildly entertained to WTF in five minutes flat.

Incidentally, I really love this story. First heard it a few months ago while on a run, where I had a similar "did I miss something?" reaction, which meant I listened to it a couple more times before having to acknowledge that it was a Weirder Being than I, and that it was better just to kowtow and hope it doesn't eat me. Something about a vast NASA conspiracy to keep the world from realizing that space is oxygenated just kicks ass, though.